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A08885 Summary:

BILL NOA08885
 
SAME ASNo Same As
 
SPONSORSillitti
 
COSPNSR
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd §2012, Ed L
 
Lowers the minimum age to vote at school district meetings and for the election of school district officers.
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A08885 Actions:

BILL NOA08885
 
01/26/2024referred to education
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A08885 Memo:

NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY
MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION
submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
 
BILL NUMBER: A8885
 
SPONSOR: Sillitti
  TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the education law, in relation to the minimum age to vote at school district meetings or for election of school district officers   PURPOSE: To lower the voting age to 16 from 18 solely for purposes of voting in a school board election.   SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Section 1: Amends subdivision 2 and the closing paragraph of section 2012 of the education law, to lower the voting age from 18 to L6 for purposes of school board elections. Section 2: Provides the effective date.   JUSTIFICATION: Lowering the voting age to 16 from 18 for school board elections will give students the opportunity to participate in the election process for the first time at a place that they are comfortable - their school. This bill will allow students the opportunity to experience using voting machines, and how to mark and submit a ballot. Giving students a chance to become comfortable with exercising their voting rights will encourage them to continue their participation in other elections when they turn 18. Also, allowing young people to be part of their school district through voting, will foster a stronger sense of belonging and connection to their community.   LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: New Bill   FISCAL IMPLICATIONS: None to the state. BOE already allows 16-year-olds to pre-register to vote, so the list of eligible voters already exists.   EFFECTIVE DATE: This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeeding the date on which it shall have become law.
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A08885 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          8885
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    January 26, 2024
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by M. of A. SILLITTI -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Education
 
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the education law, in relation to the minimum age to
          vote at school district meetings or for election  of  school  district
          officers
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 2 and the closing paragraph of section 2012  of
     2  the  education  law, subdivision 2 as amended by chapter 115 of the laws
     3  of 1973 and the closing paragraph as amended by chapter 919 of the  laws
     4  of 1974, are amended to read as follows:
     5    2. [Eighteen] Sixteen years of age.
     6    No person shall be deemed to be ineligible to vote at any such meeting
     7  or election, by reason of sex, who has the other qualifications required
     8  by  this  section;  and notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this
     9  section, no Indian [eighteen] sixteen years of age or over  who,  having
    10  been born in the United States to a member of an Indian tribe, or having
    11  been  naturalized  or otherwise acquired citizenship, shall have resided
    12  on an Indian reservation in the state for a period of thirty  days  next
    13  preceding  the  meeting  or  election  at which he offers to vote or the
    14  spouse of such Indian shall be deemed ineligible to  vote  at  any  such
    15  meeting or election of the school district where the majority, as deter-
    16  mined  by  the  commissioner, of the Indian children of such reservation
    17  are being educated under a  contract  pursuant  to  subdivision  two  of
    18  section  forty-one  hundred one of this chapter, except that the parents
    19  or guardians of Indian  children  of  such  reservation  who  are  being
    20  educated  in  the  schools  of  a district other than the district which
    21  educates the majority of such children, shall be eligible to  vote  only
    22  in the district where their children are being so educated.
    23    § 2.  This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
    24  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
 

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13708-01-3
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